Simon Akearok CurleyHall Beach
Went caribou hunting March 30, 2016, got into Arrittuq Lake, we came across bear and a cub. While mother bear went inside the den and left her young, we decided to touch the cub before the mother bear came out.

Taivitii LawsonIqaluit
A group of us scouting out a 3 a.m. river crossing on Aksayuk Pass in Auyuittuq Park on July 13. The sun was already piercing through. This hike was from Qikiqtarjuaq to Pangnirtung.

Casey has worked in journalism for more than 20 years, and with Nunavut News since 2011.
His work has taken him across the North: to every community in Nunavut's Qikiqtani and Kivalliq regions; to Yellowknife, NWT; to Whitehorse, Yukon, for the 2012 Arctic Winter Games; and to Fairbanks, Alaska, for the 2014 Arctic Winter Games.
Casey is the two-time recipient of Canada's top national award for community newspaper reporting, most recently in 2015 for his work covering Iqaluit's dump fire. He was the project developer for NNSL's 2016 Arctic Winter Games website and app, which won regional honours for best online project. His editorial criticizing the GN's approach to bilingual education was named best in Canada in 2018.